possible profanity
noun
- Usually plural. ( valuables taken by violence (especially in war))
- usage: "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy"
- The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it.
- usage: "her spoiling my dress was deliberate"
- The act of stripping and taking by force.
- synonyms: spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation
verb
- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- Become unfit for consumption or use.
- usage: "the meat must be eaten before it spoils"
- synonyms: go bad
- Alter from the original.
- synonyms: corrupt
- Treat with excessive indulgence.
- usage: "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students"
- synonyms: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, indulge
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
- usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
- Have a strong desire or urge to do something.
- usage: "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
- synonyms: itch
- Destroy and strip of its possession.
- usage: "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- Make imperfect.
- usage: "nothing marred her beauty"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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